Tuesday's Sound Off

Max Goldman, get your facts straight. It was John Kerry, Al Gore and several top ranking Democrats who pushed the Afghanistan war. Don’t forget that Clinton was handed Osama bin Laden and he refused. They’re the facts.

CJ FROM LIMERICK

The OJR parents certainly have my sympathy. Unfortunately I believe the fate of American education has gone downhill ever since teachers became unionized. When I went to school in the 1950s, people would go into teaching with the full knowledge that it was not a high paying job. They went into teaching because they loved it. Teaching for them was a passion and a vocation, not merely a job.

MUSTANG SALLY

This is in response to Max Goldman’s Another View letter. If we leave Afghanistan, what’s going to happen to the people of that country? Without us they’re going to be ruled by the Taliban again. Karzai is a part of the northern alliance which is part of the Taliban. So really, if we leave, they’re going to be under the Taliban again. We have no choice but to stay.

For the person who called in about the Weather Channel blacking out, we have the same problem but it doesn’t stop with the Weather Channel. We are being told to unplug our cable box for 30 seconds and plug it back in and it will take care of the problem. So good luck there.

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I’m calling to support Jim Fitch’s comment about the OJR teachers and their attire. I happened to be at French Creek Elementary School the other day at dismissal time and saw the teachers. I asked if it was dress down day or field day. Not one of them looked professional or well dressed. If they expect to get sympathy from the people, as he says, that’s not the right way to do it. They are not displaying good responsible judgement to the students.

I am so sick of people saying that we should stop pounding on Obama. He is the one putting this country in grave danger yet we’re supposed to sit back and take it after you people crucified George Bush for his eight years plus four more in Obama’s first term. It’s about time you stop it. We can blame Obama too.

JEN

Social Security is paid for for many more years if these politicians would let it alone instead of stealing $200 billion a year out of Social Security to put in the regular budget to spend it and blow it. If they would just leave it alone; instead they try to fool the public and add it to the regular budget which is dead wrong.

A CONCERNED CITIZEN

I got my water/sewer bill from the Borough of Birdsboro. I’m curious how much of my bill reflects that purchase of the old Aquabilities for $400,000 that the Birdsboro Municipal Authority just purchased with our money.

EMPTY POCKETS

Now that Margaret Thatcher is dead there will be fictional stories written about how great she was like they did with Reagan. Both of them were a detriment to their countries. They worked together to keep the working class down. In England they’re celebrating with champagne.

This is to North Coventry Yankee who made disparaging remarks about Fox News. If you are gullible enough to think you own a bridge in Brooklyn and to buy swamp land in Florida like you claim, then I would suggest the biggest thing you could use is a dose of Fox News.

NO SNAKE OIL PLEASE

This is for the people who think English is our official language, it is not and it never was. I’m also sorry about that. The only time anyone is forced to learn English is when they are applying for citizenship. Also, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the U.S. just like Guam and the Virgin Islands. I wish people would please look things up before they call in.

Please tell me what these representatives are doing to relieve us of property taxes. I see they’re going up again. I believe this is all smoke in the wind when they tell us that there’s going to be a bill that’s going to relieve us of property taxes.

Seems only logical to perform a background check if one wishes to purchase a firearm. Applying for most job positions, a loan from a bank, when going before a judge and court and even jury duty, these all involve a kind of background check. A no brainer, yes?

MARLBORO

I agree with Ellinor Muller’s letter to the editor about the trash along our highways. It’s a disgrace. This is supposed to be America the beautiful. What’s even worse is that no one seems to care at all. Let the people who need to do community service get out there and pick up some trash.